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		Grue3 on April 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chris Granger on the LightTable architecture [3] is misleading as vim is preinstalled on Ubuntu while emacs isn't.

AceJohnny2 on April 15, 2015 [–]

Not entirely misleading, see the "votes" stat which reflects uses.

People use what's available, having Vim preinstalled is a powerful headstart.

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